The Big Walk - Our 6th Year

The 6th Annual "Big Walk" will take place on Saturday, May 16, 2015 along the East Coast Greenway. This 50-mile event goes from Metropark Station, Iselin NJ to Penn Station NY, our longest, most diverse and perhaps toughest urban hike that we offer. Its a unique physical and mental challenge that ends in glory, and sometimes agony, in mid-town NYC. The route for this walk has many transportation options - especially trains - that allows you to design your own shorter version.

"The Big Walk" is a tough long walk through suburban and urban New Jersey ending in New York City organized by the FreeWalkers and in support of the East Coast Greenway. The Greenway staff also provide much appreciated SAG assistance along the way until Liberty State Park.

The origin of a 50-mile walk, or urban hike, dates back in the 1963 when President Kennedy challenged the American Public to actively pursue a better, healthier lifestyle. Today, although we know more about how to live better, we often make the wrong choices or are too busy to pay proper attention to our own health and creating communities that we want to live in.

Each February the FreeWalkers host the 50-Mile Kennedy Walk on the same route where Robert F. Kennedy originally walked 50-miles on behalf of his brother's interest in physical fitness for all Americans. Join us next year in Washington for a repeat of that 50-mile adventure on the C&O Canal.

By participating in the "Big Walk" we can break out and experience a new pro-pedestrian movement that provides opportunities to exercise, experience and contribute to improving our communities as well as ourselves. It's up to you to create your own challenge and test your own limits.

2014 Big Walkers

Congratulations to the 25 or so walkers that completed the fifth anniversary of the Big Walk. With a couple of downpours and wind, we still managed to have 7 finish the complete walk.

First

Last Name

Miles

Gloria

Franco

50

Ian

Hochstead

50

Kelly

Koley

50

Malaravan

Mani

50

Glenn

Markulin

50

Albert

Walker

50

Tom

Glynn

46

LeAnn

Holland

46

Will

Holland

46

Robert

Quinlan

45

Paul

Kiczek

45

Renata

Luisi

40

David

Ascher

35

Ron

Palochko

28

Nancy

Jonap

24

Cory

Storch

24

Orville

McNally

24

Ken

Kurland

17

Risa

Olinsky

16

Renee

Scott

11

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